Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Tockinit not horrible nor great

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

paulclaassen The characters were very sweet and likable. The film was suspenseful and mysterious, and slowly but surely built to an exciting action climax. The film is essentially about a man on a suicide mission and the people along the way for the ride, although not by choice. We never really see the suicidal driver or learn anything about him, but the film really is more about the victims and how they react and act in desperate times. Dougray Scott made a credible hero. The film features some really great visual effects.I really enjoyed this.

marclandsberg Dougray Scott is a fantastic actor and I always look out for him in films (check out new town killers in which he is mesmeric). So this film stayed above average - just - due to his presence. aside from that it is an average thriller, not edge of your seat stuff (train or otherwise) but definitely worth a view if there's nothing else doing. i think it is unfair to mark this down anymore and anyone who totally disses this film does not realise how many truly poor movies there are out there and this is definitely not one of them. Think "Speed" without the gorgeousness of keanu or sandra nor the mental insanity of denis hopper at his best. So if you can get over that, you should be fairly entertained. The direction and pacing is good, the characterisation is also above average.

David Jones The people who made Last Passenger are clearly fans of classic thrillers and have studied the form of their art. The direction, casting and acting are excellent. The look of the film and the level of special effects is impressive, considering the budget. And what a great score! I haven't heard a soundtrack for a thriller this good in decades. IMHO, it's the single best thing about this film.I liked all the characters. I was not bothered, as some other reviewers were, by the absence of any attempt to explain the bad guy's motives. Do we ever understand the motives of these monsters? The writers made the decision to make him simply a malevolent force, and I have no problem with that. It's sufficient that he does what he does. I was with this film and on board for the ride from the start.Unfortunately, the script has a common earmark of films written and directed by the same person: The plot just isn't good enough. There are several junctures in the story where a director would have told the writer (had they been two separate people), "You've got to do better than this." Instead, I'm guessing he said to himself, "I'll direct this so well that no one will notice." Well, we did notice. We noticed that the female lead, as appealing as she is, is given nothing to do in the A story except babysit. We noticed that (as one of the other reviewers here put it) the grandmother character's sole function appears to be to die (after some babysitting). The actresses in this film were really given thankless roles (except when they're thanked for babysitting). And yes, we did notice that, in the end, the main character's solution to his problem is simply to jump from the train (moving at about 90 m.p.h). And he lives! Somehow. Because . . he's the protagonist? Not good enough.A thriller like this runs on a series of escalating dilemmas and solutions. The dilemmas must be dire (which the filmmakers managed). The solutions have to be a few degrees cleverer than any of us would come up with in the moment. This is especially true in a thriller with a premise we've seen more than a few times. The writers are obligated to come up with at least one solution that is smarter than the solutions presented in all of those other runaway train stories that came before theirs. And they did come up with one such solution--the fire and fire-extinguisher idea of blowing up the deck between train cars so that they can access the coupling. It stretched credulity a little bit, but at least it was clever. And original. Bravo! Unfortunately, that's followed by the really lame solution of just jumping from the speeding train--which is what was left with the audience as the credits rolled. It just falls short. Heh. Kind of like a couple of characters at the climax.

blanche-2 Lately I haven't been able to concentrate on most movies. I finally decided that I had seen so many films that my Netflix list had moved into second and third tier films. While "Last Passenger" isn't the be-all and end-all of action/adventure films, it was certainly entertaining and exciting.Most of these types of films, including high-end James Bond movies, have pretty preposterous plots and action sequences. It's been pointed out that this film is very inaccurate as far as the mechanics of trains, the train stops on this particular line, and today's fail-safe mechanisms. The average person doesn't know that.This is a wild film, highly improbable, and thrilling, with attractive stars Dougray Scott and Kara Toinin. The ruggedly-handsome Scott does a job as a loving father determined to protect his son, and Kara Toinin is both gorgeous and sympathetic. The two have great chemistry. Lindsay Duncan, whom I saw in person in Private Lives, is a marvelous actress. Though she has a small part here, she's wonderful and classy. I enjoyed all the acting, even if the little boy here is no Leonardo di Caprio in the making.I get a little tired of people criticizing films as if, for instance, a movie like this is supposed to be Citizen Kane when it isn't. I don't understand taking a film apart frame by frame and criticizing it, unless, of course, it's a boring, horrid, pretentious film. However, no one seems to do that with boring, horrid, pretentious films. When I look at IMDb reviews, those are the films that are hailed as "classics" that "demand multiple viewings." Well, David Lynch movies might demand multiple viewings, but others don't -- by me, anyway, since often I can't through five minutes of them. Sometimes it's enough that a film is fast moving, entertaining. where one cares about the characters.So there, I liked it. Chacun à son goût.